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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Static Electricity Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th
Take an interactive, multiple choice quiz over static electricity. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Mass of Particle in Magnetic Field

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the mass and KE of a particle trapped in a magnetic field given the charge of the particle as well as the speed and strength of the field.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Electric Field Simple

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the electric field at a point in the vicinity of a charge.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Electric Field in a Line

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the electric field at point on a line based on the values and location of two charges.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Get Charged!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars are introduced to the idea of electrical energy. They learn about the relationships between charge, voltage, current and resistance. They discover that electrical energy is the form of energy that powers most of their...
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Static Electricity: Lesson3 Charge Interactions Revisited

For Students 9th - 10th
Gain insight and understanding of how charged objects interact with one another. Further comprehension with one or both interacivities about Coulomb's Law and Put the Charge in the Goal.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Coulomb's Law

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate how electric force, charge, and distance all relate to each other in Coulomb's Law. Presents Coulomb's Law, the SI unit for charge, the...
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Van De Graaff Discharge

For Students 9th - 10th
Charge up the Van de Graaff generator and drag the discharge wand close enough to form a spark. What happens to the electric potential energy when you charge the Van de Graaff and when the spark occurs?
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Target Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Steer a charged particle to a target. Place particles in the game and charge them to guide a positive projectile around obstacles to hit a target. You can place any number of charged objects in any location to steer the positive particle...
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Conversion of Electric Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the conversion of electric potential energy to thermal energy.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Elements and Polarity

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how polarity affects molecular shape and charge.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Coulomb's Law and Electric Force Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review how an electric force behaves between like or opposite charges, and its dependence on separation distance and charge magnitude. Compare the electric force and gravitational force.
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Professional Doc
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Rational Numbers

For Students 6th
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in rational numbers.
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Activity
Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments: Electric Shocks!!

For Students 9th - 10th
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. These...
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Other

Science Playwiths: Electricity and Magnet Playwiths

For Students 9th - 10th
A relatively easy set of instructions for building a Leyden jar, and an easy-to-understand explanation of how it works.
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Other

Museum of Science: Simple Electroscope

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource explains how to build and use a simple electroscope.
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Activity
University of California

University of California Berkeley: Charging an Electroscope by Induction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
From the U.C. Berkeley Physics Lecture Demonstrations website. A thorough description of an activity in which a charged metal plate is used to charge an electroscope by induction. Complete directions and a diagram of the equipment and...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Polar and Non Polar Molecules: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce polar and non-polar molecules, explaining their location, charge, and mass. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Polar and Non polar Molecules."
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Other

Science Hobbyist: Capacitors Do Not Store Charge

For Students 9th - 10th
A page which clarifies many static electricity misconceptions, including how a capacitor charges.
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Handout
Cornell University

Cornell University: Astronomy: Electromagnetism and Charge

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Cornell University provides a very short, very telling comparison of matter and charge. This is a good site to check out on the subject, with a chart diagram to help with further information.
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Activity
The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute Online: Electrified Ben

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Franklin Institute Online provides a somewhat simplistic but interesting tale of Ben's electrical activities. Fine link to "electricity bells", in Franklin's own words. Some other links to projects, maybe not so...